US Patent Issued to Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine on Nov. 3 for "Methods of generating mature corneal endothelial cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,184, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Westborough, Mass.).

"Methods of generating mature corneal endothelial cells" was invented by Masashi Abe (Newton, Mass.), Janmeet Singh Saini (Framingham, Mass.) and Nikolaos Giagtzoglou (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of generating corneal endothelial cells, for example mature corneal endothelial cells, by increasing expression of a transcription factor in corneal endothelial progenitors, and compositions thereof."

The patent was filed on May 2, 2022, under Application No. 18/289,363.

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